With Sarah's support Edward followed his trade as a weaver in the Salt Lake Valley. His daughters made some of the cloth into men's neckwear. Some of them were sold through ZCMI.
DAVIS, Edward William
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SNOW, Eliza Roxy: Zion’s Poetess
This article originally appeared in Vol.50, No.1 (2003) of Pioneer Magazine. by Janet Peterson The Prophet Joseph Smith often referred to Eliza R. Snow as “Zion’s poetess.” When she joined…
JACKSON, Elizabeth Horrocks: Handcart Pioneer of 1856
“It will be readily perceived that under such adverse circumstances I had become despondent. I was six or seven thousand miles from my native land, in a wild, rocky, mountain country, in a destitute condition, the ground covered with snow, the waters covered with ice, and I with three fatherless children with scarcely nothing to protect them from the merciless storms. When I retired to bed that night, being the 27th of October, I had a stunning revelation. In my dream, my husband stood by me and said, 'Cheer up, Elizabeth, deliverance is at hand'. The dream was fulfilled.”